Drinking-water and ice supplies and their relations to health and disease / by T. Mitchell Prudden.

  • Prudden, T. Mitchell (Theophil Mitchell), 1849-1924.
Date:
1891
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Credit: Drinking-water and ice supplies and their relations to health and disease / by T. Mitchell Prudden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGE Bacteria, rapid multiplication of, in water . . . • . OJ relations of cleanliness to . . . . . . 61 to purification of water by the soil . • • 4S» 51 significance of species in water ...... 7 water, effects of sunlight on . . . . .64 harmlessness of most forms of . . . . 65 oxygen haters ....... 64 lovers ....... 64 some forms of, harmful to susceptible persons . . 68 ways of getting into water of . . . . .66 Bacterial, cannibals ......... 66 norm in good water ....... 69 slime, role of, in filtration ...... 50 Berlin, bacteria in drinking-water of . . . . .71 Biological analysis of water ....... 69, 74 Boulders, origin of . . . . . . . . .17 Brooklyn, dangers of ice supply of ..... 129 Census, a water ......... 69 Cholera, bacteria of, in water ....... 91 prevention of spread of, by water . . . . . 102 Clay-beds as depositories of water ...... 19 Clay, origin of ......... 17 Clouds .......... 23 Cremating furnaces as sanitary agents ...... 103 Croton water, bacteria in . . . . . . .72 pollution of . . . . . . . 104, 105 Crust of the earth, formation of . . . . . . . 16, 17 Disinfection of discharges from the sick as preventive of water dangers . 102 Earth, development of double surface of rock and soil surfaces of the living Filter-beds, large Filters, domestic Filtration, artificial, experiments on of water purifying agencies i] bacterial slime, agency of, in intermittent natural, oxidation in 19 38 108 112 41, 48 108 109 5° 5'